Only Taxes

Welcome to Only Taxes, the Internet home of Jay Starkman, P.C.!

Jay Starkman is a CPA in Atlanta, Georgia, with over 30 years experience in public accounting. The mission of Only Taxes is to bring informative articles and some tax humor to American taxpayers.

Here are Jay's latest articles:
  In Memoriam: Martin D. Ginsburg.
  "Can An Estate Tax Be Retroactive?" short or long version.
  Tax Provisions In Health Care Reform.
  Applying for a Private Letter Ruling.

Don't forget to visit The Sex of a Hippopotamus: A Unique History of Taxes and Accounting where you will find tax stories, songs and videos. The Wall Street Journal wrote, "this is the only readable book about taxes that this longtime tax reporter has ever come across." Read the review here.

For the taxpayer who has received a Notice of Deficiency from the Internal Revenue Service, this website provides information on filing a Tax Court petition. For the tax professional, we also also offer an extensive page of resources for taking the Tax Court Exam for Nonattorneys.

Check back often for additions to our page of links to other useful tax sites. And feel free to e-mail us with any comments or questions via our new feedback form.

Download a freeware IRS Noncorporate Tax Interest Calculator
( Acrobat format) here.
Updated through September 30, 2010. We wrote this program ourselves.

Download your 2009 Tax Organizer ( Acrobat format) here.

Download freeware 2009 (Alpha) Federal 1040 Tax Preparation Software with Georgia 500. (Use  PDF XChange Viewer a free Acrobat clone that allows you to save your work, unlike Adobe's free offerings.) We wrote this program ourselves. For 2009, IRS has started a new "Free File Fillable Forms" which permits completion and e-filing of your tax return in a cloud computing environment.